Events
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Lecture
Repeopling La Mancheland: Landscape Perspectives on the Neanderthal Archaeology of La Cotte de St Brelade.
Annual joint lecture with WAS
Dr Matt Pope (UCL)
What role did the Channel Islands and coasts of Britain and France play in the lives of ancient humans populations and how can the record preserved at La Cotte and other terrestrial sites in the region help us to understand and research what now lies under the sea.
Lecture
Mortuary Practices in the Iron Age of Southwest Britain
The 22nd Sara Champion memorial lecture & Awards evening
Dr Adelle Bricking, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Cardiff
This study conducts a comprehensive exploration of the enigmatic burial practices during the Iron Age in Southwest Britain (c.800 BC-AD 43). Despite the region's intriguing range of burial variations, it has not received significant attention in past research.
Awards presentation at 4.30pm, lecture follows at 5pm.
Lecture
7th Pitt Rivers lecture: The Science of early farming in Europe
Non-Society event
Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford)
Can archaeology reveal the ‘science’ of early farming from the perspective of its practitioners? How can prehistoric understandings of agriculture inform our view of wider landscapes and monuments? And in an age of ecological crisis, what principles can we glean from the long-term story of farming across Europe’s varied environments?
Lecture
Hillforts of Britain and Ireland - an overview of a monument type from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Annual joint lecture with NNAS
Prof Gary Lock (University of Oxford) and Prof Ian Ralston (University of Edinburgh)
The compilation of an Atlas of the Hillforts of Britain and Ireland and of the underlying database, online since 2017, provided the opportunity to reassess these iconic and much-discussed sites at a scale not hitherto attempted in these islands.
Lecture
Tracing culinary traditions in prehistoric East and Central Asia
Global Pasts lecture
Dr Shinya Shoda (University of York)
In this talk, Dr Shinya Shoda will present the regional aspects of diet and culinary traditions in prehistoric East and Central Asia that are becoming clearer, based on case studies of lipid residue analysis that have been carried out by Dr Shoda and colleagues.
Lecture
‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in contemporary nature recovery
Annual joint lecture with CAS
Dr Anwen Cooper (Oxford Archaeology)
This talk will present initial findings from the UKRI-funded ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project – a collaboration between Oxford Archaeology, the Universities of Oxford, Exeter and York, Centre for Ancient Genomics, Toulouse, Historic England and Knepp Castle Estate.
Lecture
Mesolithic catastrophe: the impact of the Storegga Slide tsunami on the Mesolithic population of Britain
Annual joint lecture with Soc. Ant. Scot.
Dr Clive Waddington (Archaeological Research Services Ltd)
This paper will explore these events and their impact on the Mesolithic population with specific reference to several sites, including Howick and Low Hauxley, as case studies.
Lecture
Palaeo-London. Thinking About The Ice Age Archaeology and Environments of the Capital
Annual joint lecture with LAMAS
Dr Matt Pope (UCL)
From the first recorded discovery of a Palaeolithic tool through to the professional commercial excavations taking place in the city in recent years, we’ll consider how the London landscape was shaped by ice and water, and the early human populations who adapted, or not, to the dramatic cycles of climate change evidenced in the gravels and clays of the city’s deep past.
Image: Tabitha Paterson